Reconfiguration Aspects of PENCA - An Area-efficient Reconfigurable Encoder Architecture with Built-in Security Features for Flexible Error Detection and Correction in Robust Dependable Communication Systems

On comparison of configurable encoders in Xilinx and Altera FPGAs

“…PENCA is also used for on-line test purposes of all the baseband system chain, since consisting of many independent programmable paths and LFSRs, even performing primarily BCH encoding task, issuing tests and processing also data form used for internal test procedures. PENCA details can be found in [4,5].…”

“…Hardware implementations can use some fixed approach and dedicated circuits, or fully programmable circuits and flexible algorithms can be implemented. It is the case of our advanced industrial wireless communication system and architecture introduced already in [2,3], and the PENCA (Programmable Encoder Array) architecture in [4,5].…”